Product Description: Marc Lewis’s relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin...read more

Product Description: Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of disease globally. Neuroscience promises to revolutionise our ability to treat addiction, lead to recognition of addiction as a 'real' disorder in need of medical treatment and thereby reduce stigma and discrimination...read more

Product Description: In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction—that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control—is wrong. Drawing on psychiatric epidemiology, addicts’ autobiographies, treatment studies, and advances in behavioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary...read more

Product Description: God of Our Understanding is a frank and penetrating look at the underlying spiritual dynamics of addiction and its treatment through Twelve-Step programs. Rabbi Shais Taub, a world renown expert in Jewish mysticism as well as a mentor to many thousands of addicts, draws from his unique background to thoroughly address many of the concerns raised by Jewish addicts in recovery while also using Jewish knowledge to enrich the understanding of the spiritual principles of recovery for addicts of all faiths...read more

Product Description: Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is one of the major public health issues of our time. It accounts for one of every five deaths in the United States and costs approximately one-half trillion dollars per year in health care expenditures and lost productivity...read more

Product Description: Inspiring true stories of recovery from the high-pressure world of business They reached the pinnacle of their careers in spite of-or sometimes because of-substance abuse. They struggled with sobriety while striving for success, often risking their professional lives on the road to recovery...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together basic and clinical science to provide in-depth understanding and current knowledge concerning new conceptual insights into the CNS acting drugs and drugs of abuse and treatment of drug addiction. Methamphetamine, MDMA, PMA and different solvents are the most widely abused drugs in the Europe, United States, Central America, South America and Asian Countries and their use has dramatically increased over the last two decades...read more

Product Description: This classic study is concerned with addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. Lindesmith proposes and systematically elaborates a rational, general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate the addict's characteristic craving for drugs...read more

“Who will ever relate the whole history of narcotica? It is almost the history of ‘culture,’ of our so-called higher culture.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882With Nietzsche’s question as his objective, Stuart Walton begins Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication—a heterodox and throughly engaging examination of intoxicants, from the more everyday substances of alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco to the illicit realm of opiates, amphetamines, and hallucinogens. More than a mere catalog of intoxicants, however, Walton’s book is a smart, wry look at why intoxication has always been a part of the human experience—from our earliest Stone Age rituals to the practices of the ancient Greeks and Romans, right on through the Victorian era and ending with a flourish in modern times—and more significantly, why the use of intoxicants is, and will continue to be, an essential part of being human. Using gastronomy as an example, Walton illustrates that just as the study of food history was relatively unheard of until the 1970s, so too “intoxicology” has yet to be recognized as a richly warranted field of study. Though intoxication may not be considered as essential to human existence as food, and carries the unjust stigma of criminality, Walton proposes that it is “an integral part of Western civilization, and that we would do better to accept and celebrate that fact instead of making it a matter of criminal sanctions and repression.”The conclusions Walton draws cut across the grain of today’s prevailing attitudes and fuel an important and often neglected debate, ultimately establishing that intoxication is not only a fundamental human right but, in fact, a biological imperative.

Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Strives to break through the myths and explain what addiction really is, what causes it, and how to get the best available treatment.

Collects essays with varying points of view regarding teen addictions, examining topics including contributing genetic factors, the effects of marketing, student drug testing, and traditional anti-drug programs.

Product Description: After suffering through the pain of her teenage sons drug addiction and ultimate arrest for armed robbery, Christy Crandell started on a mission to educate parents about the warning signs she missed. What Christy attributed to normal adolescent angst was indeed something much more serious...read more

Presents an exploration of the impact of drug use on different family members, and the extent to which various practices meet the needs of families in which members use drugs. This book examines the effects of drug use not only on drug users themselves, but also the volatile mix of anger, sadness, anxiety, and shame experienced by their family.

Product Description: AMERICA PLAGUED BY “HOME DELIVERED”ADDICTION Getting addicted is now as easy as clicking your mouse. With today’s Internet access, next-day delivery of prescription painkillers is just a point and click away. For an estimated 3...read more

Leading authorities on drugs discuss the use, abuse, and the effects of marijuana, alcohol, LSD, heroin, cocaine, PCP, and other drugs and the alternatives to drug use

Product Description: Drug addiction as a brain disease is this book's theme. In clear scientific terms - with many striking examples from the author's experience as a scientist and clinician - it describes the nature of chemical addiction and addictive behaviour, the seven families of addictive drugs, and the muddied effort to develop effective drug control policies and laws...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The French symbolist describes his experiences under the influence of narcotics, comparing the effects on the mind of wine, hashish, and opium

A guide for spouses and mates of addicts offers affirmation of the fear, doubt, anger, and frustration they suffer and provides tools for assessing how caught up they are in their mate's illness. Original.